Ankle and high splice structure in full-fashioned stocking and method of making the same



Nov. 28, I950 ANKLE AND HIGH Nov. 28, 1950 w. NEBEL 2,532,071

ANKLE AND HIGH SPLICE STRUCTURE IN FULL-FASHIONED STOCKING AND METHOD 0F MAKING THE SAME I Filed Dec. 24, 1947 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 MAL/AM Nana,

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Arrow/n- Patented Nov. 28, 1950 ANKLE AND HIGH SPLICE STRUCTURE IN FULL-FASHEONED STOCKING AND METH- OD OF MAKING THE William Nebel, Charlotte, N. 0.

Application December 24, 1947, Serial No. 793,616

This invention relates to a full-fashioned stocking and more especially to a stocking having strategically located narrowing and widenings to' give a better fit to the ankle portion and is concerned especially with the employment of narrowings and widenings and preferably hidden narrowings and widenings in the high spliced heel, also known as a high heel.

It is an object of this invention to produce a full-fashioned stocking in which the leg narrowings extend a substantial distance into the high spliced heel, also known as a high heel, and also wherein the narrowings and widenings occurring during the knitting of the high spliced heel produce a very ornamental and novel type of high spliced heel or high heel, which is broader at the top portion than at the medial portion and also broader at the bottom portion than at the medial portion.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved stocking;

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the stocking;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the blank of the foot and ankle portion of the stocking before it is seamed;

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail of one side of the high splice portion and representing that portion shown in the dotted rectangular portion at the upper right-hand corner of Figure 3.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, the numeral H3 indicates the lower leg portion of a stocking blank and showing the leg narrowings l 1 extending down the leg of the sto king. After approximately 28 narrowings have taken place in narrowing the leg and before the high splice portion of the stocking is started, there is preferably knitted about seven courses without either widening or narrowing and then for the following four courses while the reinforcing yarn is being knitted along with the leg yarn the blank is narrowed for two needles on each side of the blank as indicated by reference character M. This is repeated for about three more times as at I5, l6 and I1. Then for the next six courses the stocking is narrowed two needles on each side as at 18 and then the stocking is narrowed for another siX courses as at l3 by narrowing two needles on each side of the blank. Then as at 20, the blank is narrowed by dropping two needles on each side of the blank and kitting eight courses without narrowing. Then as at 2|, the blank 4 Claims. (Cl. 66-182) is narrowed by two needles at each side of the blank and eight more courses are knitted without narrowing. narrowed two needles on each side of the blank and ten courses are knitted without narrowing.

Then as at 23 the stocking is narrowed two needles on each side of the blank and then another twelve courses are knitted without narrowing. Then as at 24 the stocking blank is narrowed two needles at each edge of the blank and four fourteen courses the blank is knitted without narrowing. Then as at 25 the blank is again narrowed two needles on each side of the same and then sixteen courses are knitted without narrowing. Here the approximate medial portion 26 of the high splice is reached.

After the medial portion 26 of the high splice has been reached the knitting continues for eight more courses as at 21 of the same width as the section indicated at 25. After the eight courses indicated at 2'! have been knitted, then the high splice portion is widened and widening begin by widening two needles as at 23 and knitting approximately ten courses all of which are widened the same amount, namely two needles at each side of the blank. After the section 28 has been knitted, then section 29 is continued by widening out two needles on each side of the blank,

and this continues for about ten courses until point 30 is reached at which time widening is increased by widening out two needles and knitting twelve courses until the point Si is reached,

at which time the blank is widened two needles for twelve courses as at 32. Then the blank is widened two needles at each edge and eighteen courses are knit as at 32c. This ends the high splice and the heel area is begun. From point 33 to point 34 the top of the heel area i knitted throughout in a series of four courses, widened two needles between each set of four courses until the point 34 is reached. From point 34 to point 35 no widening or narrowing occurs and approximately forty courses are knitted but beginning at point 33 the reinforcing indicated broadly by Then as at the stocking isv 3 completed, the same is seamed to preferably cover all of the widening and narrowing marks since they are disposed in approximately the third wale from the selvedge wale and thus a seaming operation hides these widening and narrowing marks.

It is thus seen that there has been provided an improved full-fashioned stocking in which the leg narrowings are extended through the upper portion of the high splice portion and the edges of the high splice portion remote from the seam have the reinforcing yarn stopping in the same Wale throughout the length of the high splice portion thus producing a very ornamental effect of a broadened high splice portion B at its top portion and a restricted medial portion indicated at M which merges into the reinforced lower portion of the high splice indicated at H, thus causing a much better fitting in the ankle portion of the stocking.

In the drawings and specification, while I have described specifically the numbers of narrowings and widenings, the numbers of needles narrowed and the number of courses between narr-owings or widenings, it is specifically understood that I am not limited to such numbers of needles or courses between the narrowings and widenings, but that any approximate numbers would fall within the scope of the invention as it is evident that where four courses are knitted between narrowings or widenings, that this could be three of five courses or any reasonable variation thereof.

In the drawings and specification there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, and although specific terms are emgployed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the. invention being defined in the claims.

I claim:

1. A full-fashioned stocking blank having a leg portion and heel portions and high spliced portions extending above the tops of the heel portions, each of the high spliced portions having the edge thereof remote from the selvage edge stop:

tions extending above the tops of the heel portions along each selvage edge of the stocking blank, each or" the high spliced portions having its edge which is remote from its salvage edge stepping in a common Wale and each high spliced portion having its selvage edge gradually narrowed from the top edge thereof for a predetermined number ci courses, and each high spliced portion having its selvage edge widened for a predetermined number of courses to cause the high spliced portions to mer :2 into the heel portions, thus providing a pair of high spliced portions each having its top and bottom portions substantially broader than its. medial portion, there being a number of non-narrowed courses between adjacent narrowed courses, and also a F number of non-widened courses between adjacent widened courses.

3. That method of knitting a stocking blank which comprises knitting the lower portion of the leg portion with narrowings near the salvage edges close enough to the salvage edges so as to be invisible after the blank is seamed and continuing said narrowings. for a predetermined number of times with a predetermined number of courses of equal length between adjacent narrowings and while knitting, adding reinforcing yarn to provide high spliced portions, the proximate edges of the high spliced portions in the blank each being disposed in a continuous Wale, then widening the lower portions of the high spliced portions for a predetermined number of times near the selvage edges, the widenings being close enough to the selvage edges so as to be invisible after the blank is seamed, to gradually increase the Width of the high spliced portions until the heel portions are reached, and knitting a number of non-widened courses between adjacent widened courses.

4. ihat method of knitting a stocking blank which comprises knitting the lower portion of the leg portion with narrowjngs therein and continuing said narrowings for apredetermined number of times with a number of non-narrowed courses; between the narrowed courses while continuing said narrowings adding a reinforcing yarn to: provide a hi h spliced portion at each edge of the blank, the proximate edges of the high spliced. portions in the blank each being disposed in a continuous Wale, then widening the lower portions of, the high spliced portions for a predetermined number of tmes' with a number of non-- widened courses between adjacent widened courses while still adding the reinforcing yarn thereto to gradually increase the width of the high spliced portions until the heel portions are reached, at least some of the said narrowings and Widenings being disposed in close proximity to the selvage edge of the blank, whereby the narrowing and widening marks will be hidden. by a seaming operation.

WILLIAM N'EBEL.

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